Mickey Kaus on Obama's "Snobbery"
Mickey Kaus of Slate writes:
Help! I'm A Snob Like Obama! Greg Mitchell ridicules Bill Kristol for insinuating that Barack Obama was a Marxist for saying that residents of economically depressed small towns "cling to guns or religion ... as a way to explain their [economic] frustrations." But of course it was a Marxist thing to say, wasn't it? If Democrats had delivered on the economy, Obama suggests, all those GOP cultural "wedge" issues would lose traction. This idea--that the economy trumps culture--isn't new. It's "materialism." The economic "base," Marxists would argue, determines the cultural "superstructure." If the economy changes (i.e. if small town Pennsylvanians get well-paying jobs) then the superstructure will change (Pennsylvanians will feel less intensely about their religion).
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3 comments:
Well, religion is the opiate of the masses, after all... ;)
Oh, and guns. Guns are also the opiate of the masses, apparently...
We're very crude in Pennsylvania. Some of us even believe that Bambi tastes good...
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